On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:55:03AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Thursday 26 April 2007, Mark A. Greer wrote:

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of_find_compatible_node() is not being called from a driver, its being
called from platform code.  Its extracting info from the device tree and
setting up the platform_data required by the driver.

Well, the idea of putting the device driver code into a platform specific

It isn't device driver code.  It providing the driver with some info
that it needs but doesn't have the ability to get, in general.

location is the smaller part of the problem. Even if it was the right
thing to scan the tree and then create platform_data instead of using
the of_device, that code would still belong into the device driver.

I don't think of_device is going to work very well on MIPS.

Mark